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Top row: CODA, Courtesy of Sundance Institute; Summer of Soul (…Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised), photo by Mass Distraction Media; Flee, courtesy of Sundance Institute. Bottom row: Hive, photo by Alexander Bloom; Writing With Fire, courtesy of Sundance Institute; Ma Belle, My Beauty, courtesy of Sundance Institute. Park City, UT After six days and 73 feature films, the 2021 Sundance Film Festival’s Awards Ceremony took place tonight, hosted by actor and comedian Patton Oswalt, with jurors presenting 24 prizes for feature filmmaking and seven for Short Films. Honorees, named in total below, represent new achievements in global independent storytelling. Bold, intimate, and humanizing stories prevailed across categories, with Grand Jury Prizes awarded to ....
Posted on Wednesday, February 3rd, 2021 by Chris Evangelista Today, the Golden Globe nominations were announced, and the results were pretty bad! So perhaps we should try to cleanse our palates with the 2021 Sundance Film Festival awards. This year’s Sundance was virtual, and while that experience can’t hold a candle to being on the ground in Park City, the festival organizers deserver lots of credit for putting the fest together in any capacity and running it smoothly. While I found a lot of the films I saw this year to be lacking, there were still plenty of noteworthy titles. Lots of attention was paid to ....
Chronicle Staff January 29, 2021Updated: February 6, 2021, 12:37 pm “CODA” plays on opening night of the 2021 Sundance Film Festival at Fort Mason Flix in San Francisco. Photo: Scott Strazzante, The Chronicle The Sundance Film Festival, one of the most prestigious in the world, has come to a close, having showcased more than 70 feature films online and bringing world premieres to drive-ins across the country, including the pop-up Fort Mason Flix in San Francisco. But the festival wasn’t just about watching the movies. The festival that ran Jan. 28 through Wednesday, Feb. 3, featured virtual Q&A sessions with stars and filmmakers for fun, often surprising, behind-the-scenes looks at some of the biggest films of the year. There were also some bidding wars from major distributors, who spent millions to acquire some of festival’s top films. ....
One for the Road Review: Old Friends Drink and Drive in Wong Kar Wai-Produced Thai Melodrama One for the Road Review: Old Friends Drink and Drive in Wong Kar Wai-Produced Thai Melodrama A bartender and his dying best friend reunite in an emotionally manipulative road movie that spans two continents and several relationships. Peter Debruge, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Director: Baz Poonpiriya With: Tor Thanapob, Ice Natara, Violette Wautier, Aokbab Chutimon, Ploi Horwang, Noon Siraphun, Thaneth Warakulnukroh, Rhatha Phongam. (Thai, English dialogue) Running time: Running time: 137 MIN. Courtesy of Sundance Institute The overloaded Thai equivalent of one of those YA weepies where terminally ill teens scramble to fulfill their bucket lists before expiring at a young age, all-the-feels buddy movie “One for the Road” is determined to leave audiences both shaken and stirred. Your mileage may vary as director Baz Poonpiriya (“Bad Genius ....
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – One for the Road Co-written and directed by Baz Poonpiriya. Starring Tor Thanapob, Ice Natara, Violette Wautier, Aokbab Chutimon, Ploi Horwang, and Noon Siraphun. SYNOPSIS: Boss, a high-end club owner living in New York, receives a call from his friend in Thailand, Aood, revealing he is in the last stages of terminal cancer. Director Baz Poonpiriya ( Countdown, Bad Genius) returns with a sumptuous melodrama which plumbs the depths of producer Wong Kar-wai’s thematic cachet for a richly rewarding, heart-swelling meditation on life, death, love, and atonement. Boss (Thanapob Leeratanakajorn) is a handsome, well-minted bartender running his own joint in New York City, where he entertains customers with his cocktail-making skills and frequently spends the night with the female clientele. But Boss’ seemingly idyllic existence hits a brick wall when his estranged pal, Aood (Ice Natara), calls from Bangkok with terrib ....